Comments on: Maintaining Relationships With Pokes, Pings, Winks, Drive-bys and Twitter http://blog.networksolutions.com/2009/maintaining-relationships-with-pokes-pings-winks-drive-bys-and-twitter/ Small Business tips, interviews and conversations that provide advice and discussion about small business. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:56:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: joelogon http://blog.networksolutions.com/2009/maintaining-relationships-with-pokes-pings-winks-drive-bys-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-15232 joelogon Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:37:24 +0000 http://blog.networksolutions.com/?p=2454#comment-15232 Julie -- I agree that the "saw this article and thought of you" technique is a good one... especially if it happens to be true. (I remember years ago, some marketers adopted a tactic of snail mailing a press release/article, with a post-it attached saying words to that effect, signed with a suitably generic first name, the better to look like it was coming from a friend...) Julie — I agree that the “saw this article and thought of you” technique is a good one… especially if it happens to be true. (I remember years ago, some marketers adopted a tactic of snail mailing a press release/article, with a post-it attached saying words to that effect, signed with a suitably generic first name, the better to look like it was coming from a friend…)

]]> By: joelogon http://blog.networksolutions.com/2009/maintaining-relationships-with-pokes-pings-winks-drive-bys-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-3630 joelogon Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:37:24 +0000 http://blog.networksolutions.com/?p=2454#comment-3630 Julie -- I agree that the "saw this article and thought of you" technique is a good one... especially if it happens to be true. (I remember years ago, some marketers adopted a tactic of snail mailing a press release/article, with a post-it attached saying words to that effect, signed with a suitably generic first name, the better to look like it was coming from a friend...) Julie — I agree that the “saw this article and thought of you” technique is a good one… especially if it happens to be true. (I remember years ago, some marketers adopted a tactic of snail mailing a press release/article, with a post-it attached saying words to that effect, signed with a suitably generic first name, the better to look like it was coming from a friend…)

]]> By: Julie http://blog.networksolutions.com/2009/maintaining-relationships-with-pokes-pings-winks-drive-bys-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-3629 Julie Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:58:15 +0000 http://blog.networksolutions.com/?p=2454#comment-3629 Joe,<br><br>I haven't found the perfect system yet, but I do love all these social networking sites for making checking in with my extended network so easy.<br><br>A lot of people would say that birthdays seem like an easy excuse to get in touch, but I believe that in that case, one ends up getting lost in the crowd.<br><br>In my opinion (and Keith Ferrazzi - @keithferrazzi - would be so proud right now as he describes something similar in Never Eat Alone), a really great way to reach out contacts is to send them a news article or something similar that I think they could benefit from or that made me think of them.<br><br>Not only does this spark a conversation, but it's genuine and uniquely tailored to the recipient - all key ingredients in making one's communications stand out and be remembered. Joe,

I haven't found the perfect system yet, but I do love all these social networking sites for making checking in with my extended network so easy.

A lot of people would say that birthdays seem like an easy excuse to get in touch, but I believe that in that case, one ends up getting lost in the crowd.

In my opinion (and Keith Ferrazzi – @keithferrazzi – would be so proud right now as he describes something similar in Never Eat Alone), a really great way to reach out contacts is to send them a news article or something similar that I think they could benefit from or that made me think of them.

Not only does this spark a conversation, but it's genuine and uniquely tailored to the recipient – all key ingredients in making one's communications stand out and be remembered.

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